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On 9/28/06, John R. Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new
> features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a
> common index.

> If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a
> lot of customers.

I'd buy it in an instant.  With 38 hits on "LaTeX" in Computers &
Internet on Amazon.com I'd say that ConTeXt is lagging behind in the
published-book-about department.

  nikolai